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LynneSin

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Sun Apr 12, 2015, 07:30 PM Apr 2015

Anyone watch Vice this week on HBO [View all]

I love that show. Great Documentary show and they hit some really great subject matter.

So they were exploring this crazy thing in Iran with gender reassignment surgery. See in Iran if you are a Gay you can be hanged because it's in their Quran. So pretty much it sucks to be gay in Iran with the fundamentals running the country.

But get this. Because their Quran says absolutely nothing about transexuals, they have no problem with people getting the surgery to have sexual reassignment. In fact in Iran, before they hang someone for being gay they might send them to a psychiatrist to see if they qualify for gender reassignment surgery.

I mean it's just all crazy if you ask me but the whole story they did on it was both fascinating and frightening since if I am correct being gay and being transsexual not the same thing. Of course when your country is run by fundie crazies this is what you get.

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